There are works and cartoonists familiar to North American readers all over these lists. This includes as part of the Sélection Officielle the french-language versions of Joseph Lambert's Annie Sullivan And The Trials Of Helen Keller, the first trades for Hawkeye and Saga, Ted Stearn's Fuzz And Pluck, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?, Derf's My Friend Dahmer, Peter Blegvad's The Book Of Leviathan, Rutu Modan's The Property and Tom Gauld's Goliath. The Prix Patrimonie is festooned with work familiar to North American authors, Paul Pope and Ben Hatke scored nomination in the Jeunesse/Young Persons category, and a volume of Scalped is up for Prix Polar.

It's also interesting to me that the prizes have seemed to settle into a pattern that looks like it may hold for a while now, after a few years there several years ago when they seemed in a state of massive structural flux.